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Last week Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson,71-year-old Virginian, issued his first policy sheet for the U. S. Navy under Democratic rule. The last general statement of naval policy was made Aug. 4, 1931 by Secretary Adams but soon became a dead letter because of President Hoover's indifference toward the Navy. Now the Navy has a great & good friend in the White House-a fact which gave the Swanson Policy Sheet a new ring of determination, sent a thrill of hope and elation throughout the service. Like his predecessor, Secretary Swanson promised: "To create...
Slyly recalling the high hopes of the Coolidge-Hoover New Era, Democrat Young declared...
...Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson Davis, Statesmen of the Old South, Expansion and Conflict, The Cotton Kingdom. He was a strong and early champion of the idea that German imperialism cannot be wholly blamed for the War. Though a Democrat, the new Ambassador is a political unknown holding his first public office. As a college professor he was gleefully welcomed into the Roosevelt "Brain Trust." A relatively poor man, he hopes to get along in Berlin on his $17,500 salary. "After all," said he, "the days of show...
...extent of my limited knowledge no attempt has ever been made to change the names of Wilson Dam, Cleveland Forest or Jefferson City. Democratic Washington may designate this great project by the misnomer "Boulder,'1 but to me, and I think many another Democrat, it shall continue to be known as Hoover...
...Memorial Day morning, Warden Kirk Prather stepped out into the prison yard of the Kansas State Penitentiary. In one more day Warden Prather, a bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There was a chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners...